Scripting News: Memory lane for Frontier users

Tuesday March 24, 2026; 12:09 PM EDT

I had to find out which domains being served by a problem server were still mapping to its domain. This server had been running for six years, and I was pretty sure some of the apps had moved. #
So I wrote a script in Frontier, it was the best tool available to me, and got my answer in 20 minutes, code written from scratch.#
The script visited each subfolder, the filename is the domain of the folder, finds out which server it's supposed to be running on, based on a DNS lookup, and adds a line to a list.#
Here's a screen shot of the domains folder. #
Here's the script as a screen shot and GitHub doc. #
This is just a way to preserve a little of the Frontier culture. Hard to explain in words. Easier to show as screen shots. #

Last update: Tuesday March 24, 2026; 12:26 PM EDT.

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